8 INCH #2 – MICHAEL MORLEY
vinyl release, video screening, exhibition, artist-curator conversation, live program with GATE / MICHAEL MORLEY – featuring special guests (to be announced later)
opening: 20:00 hrs.
entrance: 6 euro
location: DE PLAYER, Hillelaan 49 D, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
next to metro Rijnhaven, free parking, good for bikes
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8-INCH
DE PLAYER presents in its new series
8-INCH the second edition with
MICHAEL MORLEY. For the
8-INCH, 50 unique artist editions will be produced with original sound and artwork on square
8-INCH vinyl and cover by
MICHAEL MORLEY.The issue further contains a poster and a photo.
PERFORMANCES
On the evening
MICHAEL MORLEY will perform a live set, featuring
SPECIAL GUESTS (to be announced later).
EXHIBITION
That same night
DE PLAYER opens the first European solo exhibition of this New Zealand artist and experimental musician. Curated by freelance curator Roland Groenenboom, the exhibition contains recent watercolours, paintings and drawings made in New Zealand, as well as those made during
MORLEY’s residency in Paris (June – August 2009). It also includes in situ works by
MORLEY, who will spend most of August in Rotterdam to work both on visual art and recordings in the studio of
WORM.
In his visual production,
MORLEY explores how the vast territory of sound may be used within the truly visual practice of painting, among others focusing on how silence and painting relate to each other. His research takes on different forms: from paintings on seven-inch records to watercolours of vintage guitar amplifiers and speaker stacks, and from watercolours of anonymous high-rise buildings to paintings of record players that appear to play a vinyl record.
The
EXHIBITION will be open
14, 15, 20, 21 & 22 august 13.00-17.00 hrs.
SENSATIONAL FIX ZINE #3 ‘MORLEY’
Next to the
8-INCH release, Roland Groenenboom’s
SENSATIONAL FIXon the same night presents
SENSATIONAL FIX ZINE #3 ‘MORLEY’, the first monographic publication dedicated to the art of
MICHAEL MORLEY. This third fanzine in a projected series of five has 24 pages, of which 12 with full colour illustrations of
MORLEY’s art. It furthermore contains an essay by the artist about his visual production. A
DVD with a video/sound work by
MORLEY accompanies the publication.
SENSATIONAL FIX ZINE #3 ‘MORLEY’ is published in a limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies. When bought at
DE PLAYER it costs 8,50 euro and when ordered through
SENSATIONAL FIX it costs 10,50 euro (international p&p included). Send orders to:
sensationalfix@yahoo.com. For more info on the philosophy behind the
ZINE SERIES and
SENSATIONAL FIX go to
http://sensationalfix.blogspot.com/.
DE PLAYER/8-INCH release agenda:
Melted Men (nl/us/fr) 25 juli
Michael Morley (nz) 13 august
No Bra (uk) 17 september
MoHa! (no) 12 november
Fat Worm Of Error (us) december
You can buy
8-INCH limited editions at the webshop:
www.deplayer.nl
One issue costs 60 euro. A subscription for all 6 costs 275 euro.
8-INCH is financially supported by Mondriaan Foundation, Fonds BKVenB Amsterdam, City of Rotterdam Department of Culture, Pact op Zuid and Vestia.